Posted on 08/28/2007 11:27:34 AM PDT by redstates4ever
An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigerette from a candle on her birthday cake.
Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since.
She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Taste Me! Taste Me! Come on and Taste Me!....”
Silly woman.
Doesn’t she know cigarettes will kill her?
If she don’t stop smoking, why, she may never make it...
... to 103.
So.... she and Bill have something in common!
Why?
Unless his cancer was operable life expectancy is less than a year.
5 cigarettes a day and she does not inhale.
She does not in any way qualify as a smoker.
A non-smoking bar maid would inhale more smoke in her average work day than this woman.
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Hell is other people removing your cigarette (Sartre photo airbrushed to comply with French law)
Take it back up if you can smoke 5 a day and not inhale.
Lotsa luck! (You’ll be smoking like you used to in 3 days . . .)
Don’t do it man! Don’t do it! Don’t think it!
I got good news and bad news....
He was gone in six weeks.
Perhaps the docs felt that they should talk to him as if he wasn't as bad off as he was in order not to have him lose hope and become depressed? Perhaps they are just used to telling people to watch their diet and stop smoking?
We decided to let him enjoy his life. He smoked his stogies up until the last couple days.
She could easily quit, but get run over by a car the next day.
“Take it back up if you can smoke 5 a day and not inhale.”
Never happen. It’s been a few years and I still have nicotene fits.
“Lotsa luck! (You’ll be smoking like you used to in 3 days . . .)”
Probably worse.
“Don’t do it man! Don’t do it! Don’t think it!”
It’s like alchohol to a drunk, if I smoke one, I’m back and I can’t afford to be. Financially OR physically.
Monk! Can you paste Looter Guy into this? Maybe you can put the Birthday Cake in his tub-o-beer? LOL!
I didn’t realize you gals were into your Hundreds!
That gives me a whole new level of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for ya, LOL! :)
She must smoke “Sinatra style” meaning she doesn`t inhale but puffs.
Whoops... I should have read all the way to the end. Seems I was right....
“Despite the numerous health warnings, Mrs Langley insists she’s never suffered because of the habit as she “has never inhaled”
DO NOT start again! This story is misleading as it is about someone who puffs. Believe me, there is a HUGE difference between those who “puff” and those who “inhale”. I was an “inhaler” smoker for 30 years, 2-4 packs of Marlboro Red a day, and even though I quit 6 years ago, everytime I sleep I am reminded of the damage. I`ll make a recording of my lungs if you don`t believe me. They sound like the squeak toys you give to dogs. That is DAMAGED lungs, absolutely irreversable damage. If I drink even three beers, I can barely climb a flight of stairs because my heart cannot handle the alcohol combined with the lack of O2. I`m 45 now and I suspect quite realistically I will be dead before I am 60 if not before then. And the funny thing is, when I was 14 I absolutely hated cigarettes, I mean you couldn`t find a more fanatical cigarette opponent than me. But it`s amazing what one will do for women. “One wont hurt you! Three wont hurt you!”
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